Arena Magazine no. 159

Editorial: RENEGOTIATING OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD

The effects of the GFC continue to play out in the novel processes of globalisation as linked to the power and reach of the techno-sciences

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Arena Magazine issue no. 159, 2019

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
Editorial
John Hinkson2
Lead Graphic
Therese Ritchie4
Commentary
EXTERMINATING THE OTHER
The Christchurch massacre, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism
Faisal Al-Asaad5
MARKETING FASCISM
The cyber-strategies behind the Christchurch attack
Timothy Erik Ström7
DOWNFALL
Notes towards a different reading of George Pell
Julie Stephens8
REDACTING THE SOCIAL
The Productivity Commission examines 'mental health'
Mark Furlong10
ANZAC'S SHADOW MARCH: THIS IS NOT A DAY FOR YOU
Challenging the Anzac account of the birth of the nation
Barry Morris12
Comment
Scott Ludlam, Raewyn Connell, Judith Brett, Amy McQuire, Richard King, Guy Rundle16
IDEAS FOR CHANGE
GETTING TO WHERE WE WANT TO GO
Do we need a new relational politics to strengthen common purpose?
Richard Hil and Kristen Lyons25
Our Power, a documentary and community process negotiating a post-carbon future
Alison Caddick28
FEATURES
A new conjuncture makes real change possible at the coming federal election
Jim Stanford32
GET BIG OR GET OUT
Broadacre farming and the efficiency ethos
Diane Luhrs36
LEARNING FROM THE LEFT
Gramsci and the far Right
Rjurik Davidson40
TRANSGENDERISM IN AUSTRALIA'S POLITICAL ECONOMY
Justice or smokescreen: where do the interests lie in the transgender debate?
Caroline Norma43
ARENA ESSAY
TECHNO-SCIENCE AND THE POST-HUMAN CONDITION
Developing a critique of techno-scientific change
Simon Cooper47
ARTS AND CULTURE
THE CLOCK
Christian Marclay's meditation on cinema, time and mortality
Daniel Ross52
Reviews
THE MAN WHO LOVES...
Sampling a bounty of work in Barry Hill’s Reason & Lovelessness
Christos Tsiolkas54
ANTI-PROGRESSIVE ADVOCATES
Dominic Kelly’s survey of right-wing advocacy in Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics
Mathew Jose55
STORY AND STORYTELLING
Milo Rau’s extraordinary La Reprise: Histoire(s) du Theatre (1)
Grazyna Zajdow57
POETRY
JOURNEY PLANNER 1
Paul Mitchell56
WELL HI, HAVEN’T I56
Cartoons
Matt Bissett-Johnson
Additional Artwork
Chips Mackinolty
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Chris Black

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